http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/03/infants-ingest-nearly-80-times-safe-level-of-dioxin.aspxThe Environmental Protection Agency has held public hearings to
review a proposed safe exposure limit for dioxin, a known carcinogen and
endocrine disruptor.Dioxin is nearly impossible to avoid, as women exposed to it pass it
on to fetuses in the womb, and both breast milk and formula have been
shown to contain it. Research done has shown that a nursing infant ingests an amount 77
times higher than what the EPA has proposed as safe exposure. Adults are
exposed to 1,200 times more dioxin than the EPA suggests is safe.According to Inhabitots:

"Because dioxin is such a common pollutant -- it's a waste product of
incineration, smelting, chlorine bleaching and pesticides manufacturing
-- its health effects are well documented ... [S]tudies have shown that ongoing low-level exposure can result in
heart disease, diabetes, cancer, endometriosis, early menopause and
reduced testosterone and thyroid hormones."

The students at Benjamin Franklin
High School have it right. They have organized against Energy Answers'
waste-to-energy incinerator planned for a location within one mile of three
schools in Curtis Bay.Not only should it not be built
so close to their school, it should not be built at all. Calling it a
trash-burning "power plant" doesn't make it safe or change the fact
that it incinerates industrial waste including old tires, plastics and
construction materials — up to 1.4 million tons a year.This industrial waste produces
dangerous emissions such as mercury and other heavy metals, dioxin and other
chlorinated chemicals. When mercury deposits in waterways, it gets converted to
methyl mercury and concentrated in fish. When pregnant women and children
consume the fish, neonates and children can suffer neurological damage and
diminished IQ. Some heavy metals like cadmium, chromium and nickel increase the
risk of lung cancer. Dioxin, one of the most
dangerous chemicals, is formed when chlorinated organic compounds are
incinerated, and hence, incinerators are the major source of dioxin in the
environment. In addition to causing cancer, it weakens immunological response
to infection and can disrupt hormonal action, including reproductive function.
It accumulates in our fat and doesn't go away.

Nowadays, we hear a lot about the noxious
cocktail of chemicals that can be found in our food, furniture, cleaning
products and even our cosmetics. Yet we never really hear about what might be
included in some of the most intimate personal care products women use.